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Black or Golden? The economic effects of the fall in the pound (Q3 2008)

The fall in the UK exchange rate over the last six months has been broadly similar in scale to that seen after the pound fell out of the ERM in 1992. But while this should eventually lead to a period of better-balanced growth like that in the mid-1990s, it won’t prevent a major housing downturn from pushing the economy dangerously close to a recession over the next year or two.

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